Welcome to the official
web site of the Government of the Pitcairn
Islands.

The Pitcairn Islands group is a British Overseas Territory.
It comprises the islands of Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and
Oeno. Pitcairn, the only inhabited island, is a small
volcanic outcrop situated in the South Pacific at latitude
25.04 south and longitude 130.06 west. It is roughly 2170km
(1350 miles) east south-east of Tahiti and just over 6600km
(4100 miles) from Panama. The Islands' administrative
headquarters are situated in Auckland New Zealand, 5310km
(3300 miles) away.

With a population of only around fifty, the people of
Pitcairn are descended from the mutineers of HMAV Bounty
and their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island is
approximately 3.2km (2 miles) long and 1.6km (1 mile) wide
with the capital Adamstown located above Bounty Bay and
accessed by the aptly named road, "The Hill of
Difficulty".